The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers inEnglish studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Native AmericanLiterature for our 40th annual conference, celebrating the organization's70th anniversary.

This special topic panel welcomes submissions on any aspect of NativeAmerican Literature. Topics may include but are not limited to: NativeAmerican literary separatism, indigenous theory and/or rhetorics, NewCritical approaches to indigenous literatures, environmentalism, pan-Indianism, the uses and abuses of post-colonial theory for NativeAmerican studies, as well as film. All submissions will be considered.Abstracts must be submitted electronically using CEAâ€™s database. Forinformation on how to submit, see the full CFP athttp://www2.widener.edu/~cea/conference2009.htm.

General Conference Theme: DesignIn addition, CEA welcomes proposals for presentations on the generalconference theme, Design. We live in a world atomized into text messagesand jump cuts, socially constructed snippets on networking sites,fragmented blogs and news bites, ones and zeroes. In such a context, isthere still a role for conscious design - of literature, of art, ofrhetoric, of learning? After the death of the author, who designs thetexts we love to see, read, and study? Or do we make our owndesignations, sketching out the plot, shading in the design, creatingmeaning as we find it?

General Call for PapersCEA also welcomes proposals for presentations in any of the areas Englishdepartments typically encompass, including literature, creative writing,composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. We alsowelcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics, includingstudent demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment,student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, andthe place of the English department in the university.